ART Advanced Recognition Technologies announced today that LG Electronics has selected ART's embedded speech interface for its new 4500 series CDMA phones. LG Electronics is the world’s largest producer of CDMA phones.
No value was disclosed.
LG vice president of CDMA marketing Jae-Gyung Ham said, “Having successfully deployed smARTspeak into earlier CDMA and GSM devices, we are extremely impressed with its phoneme-based speech recognition and text-to-speech verbal confirmation. We have every confidence that the new LG 4500 with smARTspeak XGT will soon become the benchmark against which all other mobile devices are measured.”
The advanced features of the smARTspeak XGT will enable users of the LG 4500 phone to dial by speaking a person’s name or phone number. Giving equally fast and accurate response whether users say “John Smith, office” or “Dial +1202111002”, smARTspeak XGT maintains ART’s popular out of-the-box, multi-user experience. In addition, the phone will recognize commands such as “contact” and “redial” and offers trainable digit dialing that can be adjusted to a user’s accent. When more than one name is available, ART’s “Best Match” function presents a short-list of options either as text or voice for extra convenience.
The new LG 4500 CDMA phones are currently available only in the United States.
Based in the United States with sales offices on the East and West Coasts, ART maintains a wholly owned Israeli subsidiary that conducts research and development.
ART’s embedded software-only solutions are deployed in dozens of product lines from industry leaders such as Motorola, LGE, Xelibri by Siemens, Panasonic, Mitsubishi, NEC, BenQ, Pogo, Logitech, AlphaCell, GVC, Quanta, Compal, Inventec, Casio, Maxon, RAKS, Siemens Automotive, Franklin, PaceBlade, Hitachi and others. ART has strategic and technological partnerships with industry leaders including: Texas Instruments, Qualcomm CDMA Technologies, Motorola Semiconductors, Intel, Infineon, Agere, ADI, TTPCom, DSPG, Ceva, Microsoft, Symbian, UIQ, SVOX, Accelent Systems, Phone-Or and others.
Published by Globes [online] - www.globes.co.il - on Tuesday, May 11, 2004